In 2002, a series of mysterious oil spills spread alarm up and down the Northern California coastline, when a 200-mile stretch of beaches became littered with the carcasses of oiled animals. Experts soon realized they had an escalating disaster on their hands. Finally, the leak was traced to a 50...
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January 1999. In less than two weeks, three clam fishing boats and 10 men are lost inexplicably off the Eastern seaboard -- two off the New Jersey shore and one near Cape Cod. The vessels -- the Beth Dee Bob, Cape Fear, and Adriatic -- all sank suddenly, with almost no warning. While the weather ...
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Just off the coast of Northern California, our Deep Sea Detectives dive into a cove near Mendocino -- a rocky inlet called "the Washing Machine" for its turbulent currents. There they find the wreckage of The Frolic, a clipper that smuggled opium into China during the 1840s. Who built and owned i...
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In the shimmering waters of Apra Harbor, on the American Island of Guam, lie the eerie wrecks of two ships from two different wars. Though they sank 30 years apart, they went down within inches of each other and today are touching in one ocean grave-a diver's dream! Join host John Chatterton as h...
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In the 1970s, Mel Fisher became obsessed with locating and excavating the Spanish galleon "Nuestra Senora de la Atocha" that had gone down off the Florida Keys in 1622 while carrying over 47 tons of treasure. He gathered a ragtag group of divers and spent 16 years searching for the elusive ship. ...
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July 1918 - Just south of Long Island, the crew of the armored cruiser USS San Diego, en route to New York City to join a Europe-bound convoy, reports a dull thud ringing in the hull and explosions in the boiler room before the warship sinks. In his final log entry, the captain attributes the ini...
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Host John Chatterton dives the remains of a ship recently found off Florida whose past is as illustrious as her demise was mysterious. The Eleanor Bolling was the workhorse that carried Admiral Richard Byrd on his 1928 Antarctic expedition. But after Byrd's return to a New York City tickertape pa...
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In Summer 1942, with the U.S. at war in Europe and the Pacific, few Americans knew that the war raged in their own backyard. Dozens of Hitler's U-boats had penetrated the Gulf of Mexico, sinking merchant vessels and oil tankers. Of all the U-boats that attacked the Gulf, only one rests at the bot...
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In 1943, the USS Murphy, along with seven other destroyers and two battleships, left New York Harbor to accompany a supply convoy headed to England. The convoy sailed dark on that moonless night-not even a cigarette could be lit on deck. Suddenly, the Murphy was struck and sliced in half. The bow...
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During WWII's final stages, the U.S. established what it believed was safe anchorage in a Western Pacific lagoon called Ulithi Atoll. But on the morning of November 20, 1944, an explosive attack by one of Japan's new secret weapons sent a refueling ship, the USS Mississinewa, to the bottom of the...
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